This could be an inaccurate assessment on my part, and they did reach their Kickstarter goal, so maybe we’ll be hearing from these guys again soon. So from my vantage point, I only see Manga Reborn as a site for people to translate and work on manga, as opposed to getting people to read manga. And as I’m sure you know now, Space Brothers is on Crunchyroll. This was announced (with no fanfare I add) 10 months ago. Well, believe it or not, Manga Reborn was supposed to get Space Brothers ( Uchuu Kyoudai), which would have been a big pickup. And then for those who are intimidated by classic manga, there’s nothing recent at all to read. Sure there’ll be some, but most of it is still in Japanese. When you do use the search engine, you then realize there’s not a ton of new manga up that’s available to be read. Instead, the best way to find a new release is to use the search engine. Sure, using the slider can be great, but instead of new releases that’s up there, there’s new releases in a language I can’t read. What I’m implying by that is there’s no way to get to a sizable manga list - in English I add - that’s already finished and has no need of going through a translation.
The first problem is that there’s nothing immediate to read.
This sounds all well and good, until you go to the site: Manga Reborn is advertised as a legal scanlation site - as in, these folks actually get in contact with artists and publishers in order to obtain the rights of manga that might not otherwise come here, and then have manga fans, or specifically those who can translate and letter manga, work on making that manga available in whatever language is possible. But I’m guessing you want more info than that, so let’s get into it. What are these sites you ask? In one sentence: Legal manga reading sites with either advertising and/or site wide mistakes that’s kind of crippling. That’s when you realize there’s a few more manga sites that have been floating under the radar: Manga Reborn, Renta!, Amimaru, Balloons & Chapters, Manga Samurai, and Manga 2.5. Aside from that, it feels like that’s about it. Aside from those two, with CR Manga probably the most mainstream out of all of them, most are publisher specific - Viz with Viz Manga, Digital Manga with eManga, etc - and we have Gen Manga to round things out. Crunchyroll Manga just made their debut in the last quarter of 2013, and Mangabox made their debut in December. …Oh right, I guess I should explain a bit more what I’m talking about.įor starters, we don’t have a ton of legal manga reading sites. Well, maybe not as weird as expected, since the online manga sites themselves might be the ones with some issues. I’m guessing it’s not true, but it’s just a feeling. Needless to say though, it feels that’s the only type of exposure they’ve gotten. I did list some of them though, because they proved they’re legit somehow. You don’t really see these discussed amongst forums and various social media sites. You don’t really see it at Manga Bookshelf.
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